Book Review: The Devil and Miss Prym (Author: Paulo Coelho)
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Brief Introduction: The stranger, Carlos, enters the isolated mountain town of Viscos with the devil literally by his side. He proposes a wager to the town: if someone turns up murdered within a week, he will give the town enough gold to make everyone wealthy so that they could leave the town. Carlos chooses Chantal Prym to show her where the gold is, ensuring that townspeople believe in his words. He wants to vindicate that people are basically evil. Chantal has two choices: disappear with the gold sneaky or do nothing. However, the corrupt townspeople decide to sacrifice Berta, the widow who can see the hidden devil, to get the gold. Consequently, a battle for the town’s souls has begun.
Quotes:
- Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
- She 'saw through' other people, and could tell what their feelings were.
- Of all the days in our life, which is the one that never comes?''Tomorrow.'
- Setting a time late in the day, as if they were all immensely busy people with important matters to deal with.
- Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. If there was no betrayal, there could be no cross, the words of the scriptures would not be fulfilled, and Jesus' sacrifice could not serve as an example.
- Silence does not always mean consent usually all it meant was that people were incapable of coming up with an immediate response. If someone did not agree, they would later torture themselves with the idea that they had accepted without really wanting to, and the consequences of that could be grave.
- Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
- Savin and Ahab had the same instincts -Good and Evil struggled in both of them, just as they did in every soul on the face of the earth. It was all a matter of control and choice. Nothing more and nothing less.
- You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil.
- virtue is simply one of the many faces of terror.
All the above sentences are extracted from kindle electronic book.